Search Results: Literary Criticism from Charles Agvent

New York: Oxford University, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Callan traces the development of Auden's art from its beginnings to his death.

Berlin: S. Fischer, 1910. First Edition. wraps. Owner inscription in German dated February 1910 on the front endpaper. Near Fine. Printed wraps. Laurence K6. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece of Shaw. Text in German.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. First Edition. hardcover. Some fading of gilt to the spine though that on the front cover is still bright and strong. Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Four essays on Conrad, Dreiser, Huneker, and Puritanism as a Literary Force.

London: Oxford University, 1942. First Edition. Printed wraps. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise Fine. Printed light blue wraps, 27 pages. Gallup A40: 5017 copies. A later copy with the "t" on the title page weakly registered but still noticeably visible.

(Santa Cruz, CA): (Story Line Press), (1989). First Edition. Softcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The softcover issue. A collection of Hall's poems, essays by other poets such as Robert Creeley and W. D. Snodgrass about Hall, reviews of Hall's work, an interview with Hall, and a bibliography. Illustrated with photographs from Hall's collection.

(Santa Cruz, CA): (Story Line Press), (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A collection of Hall's poems, essays by other poets such as Robert Creeley and W. D. Snodgrass about Hall, reviews of Hall's work, an interview with Hall, and a bibliography. Illustrated with photographs from Hall's collection. Uncommon in hardcover.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1941). First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor edgewear and a couple of closed tears. Dahlberg's unique takes on Thoreau, Melville, etc.

London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Four small, discreet library stamps within text, ink number on verso of title with some bleed through; library perforated stamp to half title and title pages. Corner of one page torn with no loss of text. Attractively bound with good margins in modern calf-backed boards; xii, 481 pages. An important work by this philosopher published the same year that his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, died shortly after giving birth to their daughter and future author of FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley. He would later have some influence on his daughter's husband, Percy Shelley. Published several years after Godwin's THINGS AS THEY ARE, which some regard as the first modern novel. Godwin, "the philosophical representative of English radicalism" (DNB), also had the distinct honor of reading Thomas Paine's RIGHTS OF MAN in manuscript.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Studies of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Sherwood Anderson, Conrad Aiken, Henry Miller, and others. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999.

New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, (1967). First Edition. Wraps. Fine with apparently unplayed record in bag in rear pocket. Containing the first appearance of the poem "One Favored Acorn," this booklet was designed as a teaching device.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minimal wear. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles.

New York: New Directions Books, (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with small chips at spine tips. Edited by Cleanth Brooks. An early book appearance by Robert Lowell. Also essays by Marshall McLuhan, Josephine Miles, and others.

London: Privately Printed, 1946. First Edition. wraps. Slight soiling to covers. Very Good to Near Fine. Printed wraps. Laurence B311. A twenty-page pamphlet limited to 500 copies printed for the author that includes three paragraphs by Shaw not previously published.

London: William Heinemann, 1929. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Printed wraps; 22 pages.

[Hastings-on-Hudson, New York]: Privately Printed, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper. Decorated cloth. The author's attempt to prove that Clemens was not only Mark Twain but also Lewis Carroll and others. Profusely illustrated.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Modern bookplate. Spine chipped to text block, old repairs to both joints, gilt on spine very bright. Good. Original brown cloth. BAL 21769: Binding A (no sequence determined). Only 1500 copies printed. Dec. 1849 Catalogue, earliest noted, inserted at front. Without "The End" on last page. Contents are 10 biographies including John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell.

New York: Harper & Row, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly bowed; spotting bulked edges of text. Very Good in a bright, Very Good or better dustwrapper with a very small tear near the top of the spine. Introduction by Raymond Carver.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Corners bumped. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with a darkened spine. Cloth-backed boards; 192 pages. "The follies of anthologists, and the effect of anthologies on reputations are the subjects sharply analyzed and discussed here."

Greenfield, MA: University Press of America, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without a dustwrapper. Gilt-lettered red cloth, [viii], 152 pages. Contributions by William Heyen, William Meredith, Donald Hall, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Wilbur, and many others. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize and promote the institution. In addition to winning three Pulitzer Prizes, MacLeish was commissioned by the NEW YORK TIMES to write a poem to celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing, which he entitled "Voyage to the Moon" and which appeared on the front page of the 21 July 1969 edition of the paper.

London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges cracked but tight; mild soiling to covers, gilt a little dull. Very Good. Brown and mustard boards. Small bookplate of Arthur Sherwell on pastedown. Uncommon early book on Whitman.